Barkley’s views unchanged despite Warriors’ small ball success
In an exclusive interview with The Chronicle, the NBA Hall of Famer and longtime Warriors critic did not capitulate:
The Round Mound of Rebound has never appreciated the Warriors’ freewheeling style of play, believing instead that the game revolves around big men.
“I think that’s really unfair,” said Barkley, who is going to Lake Tahoe this week to play in the American Century Championship, a celebrity golf tournament held at Edgewood.
Just look at who the Spurs went after this offseason.
[...] going big looks like Gregg Poppovich’s strategy to counter the Splash Brothers’ sharpshooting next season.
The wide-open style championed by the Warriors (literally) has to mean something.
If the two injured Cavs had been on the court for the Finals, it certainly would have been a closer contest.
Steph is a hell of a player, but he’s not on the level of those guys.
[...] if you’re considering jumping in the car to go heckle Barkley next weekend in Tahoe, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.
Keep in mind that it’s his job to be controversial.
Barkley is the NBA’s loudest mouthpiece and he relishes the role.
People line up their boats on the 17th fairway at Edgewood and it’s a floating tailgate party.
The golfers regularly play catch with footballs thrown from bikini-clad fans on the boats, adding to the raucous atmosphere.
At last glance, Barkley was going off at 5,000-to-1 at Harrah’s & Harveys Race & Sports Book.
The field is loaded with former Raiders greats, which should make for a fitting get-together considering the sad news of the death of legendary Oakland quarterback Kenny Stabler.
“Trophies get old, they get dusty, so what lives on is what you do for other people,” Allen said at last year’s tournament.
[...] the fact that it’s to support traumatic brain injuries and research for that, I think that’s even better.
Especially a lot of the guys here who have, playing football, experienced concussions and some of the aftereffects of that certainly know how important that is.
Snowboarding champion Kevin Pearce suffered a near fatal head injury in a Park City, Utah, half-pipe in 2009, ending his competitive career but opening a whole new chapter in his life.
While traveling a long road to recovery, the New England native and longtime California resident has established the LoveYourBrain Foundation with his brother, Adam.
How damaging negative thoughts are for my brain, said Pearce.
He’s trying to help kids with head trauma get affordable care.
The snowboarding hero should find plenty of people to talk to up in Tahoe.
Since the Upshaw tournament began in 2009, $323,544 has been donated toward traumatic brain injury research at the Tahoe Institute for Rural Health Research, which has been working to develop an objective concussion-testing protocol for years now.